Awning



y 1950 T. w. BRADLEY 2,515,588

AWNING Filed July 26, 1945 ll l TWB railgy F ARE-4W TTURN Patented July18, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention relates to metallic awnings and has for its primarypurpose the provision of a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficientstructure having a plurality of sections capable of easy assembly andmounting by a single unskilled workman.

Metallic awnings are usually so heavy that they cannot well be liftedand held by a single person while being secured in place. When made at afactory as a single unit, their original cost in addition to the laborrequired for their delivery and installation is likely to make themprohibitively expensive. When they are not prefabricated, the workmenwho install them usually require sheet metal workers tools for cutting,bending, soldering, and otherwise assembling the parts.

These considerations will prevent the average householder fromattempting to construct and install a metal awning in spite of itsadvantages over o-wning of canvas or of wood.

In the present invention, a supporting framework is made in easilyhandled, relatively small sections which can be secured in place byscrews, and upon this support, top and end sections may be set, one at atime, and held firmly in place by screws and twisted wire. All thesections are suificiently light in weight to be lifted, held inposition, and mounted by a single workman using only the tools necessaryto drive a screw.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown for purposes ofillustration in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation of an awning in place over a window; Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of one side frame and a bracket; Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe same frame; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through a louveredpanel on the plane IVIV of Fig. 1; Figs. 5 to 9, inclusive, are sectionstaken transversely of the louvered panel on the planes indicated by thelines V-V, VIVI, VIIVII, VIII-VIII, and IX-IX, of Fig. 4; Fig. is atransverse section of a cap panel on the plane of Fig. 1; Fig. 11 is afragmentary longitudinal section through the end of a rod in a socket,showing two means for holding them connected; and Fig. 12 is afragmentary section showing a means for connecting the adjacent edges ofa cap panel and a lower panel.

In Fig. 1, an awning is shown as mounted over the upper portion of awindow of which the lower sash is seen at I. The awning preferablyconsists of an odd number of panels, three of the louvered panels 2being shown as alternating between four cap panels 3. Each panel issecured at its upper end to a metal wall bracket set in alinement withthe other brackets on the wall or frame above the window.

The left end wall bracket 4 seen in front elevation in Fig. 2 and inside elevation in Fig. 3, is provided with sockets 5 and 6 for rod-likemembers l and 8 of an end frame and it will be understood that the rightend wall bracket 9 of which only the top is seen in Fig. 1, will besimilar to the bracket 4 but having parts reversed. Theintermediate'wall brackets ID for the panels 2 and the brackets II forthe panels 3 are like the bracket 4 without the sockets, which are notneeded. Beneath the bracket 4 is a lower bracket l2 with a socket I3 forthe lower end of the member I and a socket M for the inner end of a.horizontal brace member l5. An outer corner bracket l6 has socket I! forthe lower end of member 8, socket I8 for the outer end of member 55, anda lateral socket is for a cross rod or pipe 2! connecting the end frameformed by the members l, 8, and I5 with a similar frame at the right endindicated by broken lines in Fig. 1 at 2|.

With the wall brackets 4, 9, Ill and II secured in place as by screws,the left end panel 22, indicated in Fig. 3 with parts broken away, maybe attached to the adjacent end frame 7, 8, and i5 as by wires 23 weldedto the face of the panel and twisted around the frame members.

A can panel 3 is shown in section in Fig. 10 as a curved strip of sheetmetal having each side edge formed with a flange 24 to cooperate with asimilar flange 25 on an adjacent end panel 22 or a louvered panel 2. Asshown best in Fig. 12, the ends of the flanges 2e and 25 are doubled onthemselves to provide a thickened edge to be engaged within a tube 26slid along lengthwise of the flanges, the slit in the tube being closeenough to engage the thickened edges to prevent them from slipping outof the tube.

In Fig. 4, a panel 2 is shown as having a taperin; vertical flange 21,having a plurality of Iongitudinal slits stamped out to form louvers 28open for the escape of heated air from the space beneath the awningwhile keeping out rain.

appearance to the awning. By providing panels of different standardwidths, a set may be se-v lected to suit various widths of windows and"frames and give the proper spread.

As a means for securing the members], 8, 15,.

and IS in their sockets, Fig. 11 shows the socket 18 as having recessesformed by boringholes 34 through the walls of the socket and thenproviding-the outer end of the-holes with a screw 35 or a welded plug36, and the. member 15 formed as a tube with a solid end piece 31-welded in the end of the tube and havingbored. holes 38 for slidingdetents 39, thrust outward by spring do or elastic material 4|, into theholes 34. With thedetents pressed back into the holes 38, the endpiece'31 can be slid into= thesocket-until the'detents are pushedoutinto the recesses to lock the member in place: The screw 35 is foreasy removal of the detent if desired, while the welding 36 gives a muchmore difiicult-fastening to" release.

Many variations in details of construction, size, and proportion of.parts may be'made without departure from the invention as claimed.

Iclaim:

1. An awning comprising a plurality of inclined panels, each panelhaving means at its upper end for attaching it to a wall, the panelsbeing arranged in two series, an upper series of cap panels and a lowerseries of panels each having tapering flanges extending vertically alongopposite edges to form sloping drainage channels diminishing in depthoutwardly from the wall, and means for securing the upper edge of eachtapering flange to the adjacent edge of a cap panel.

2. A structure as in claim 1 in which the vertical flanges have louversformed therein for the escape of air from beneath the panels.

3. An awning including a panel having each side formed with a verticaltapering flange having a laterally extending upper edge portion, and a.cap panel adjacent to each flange and having an edge portion engagingthe edge portion of the flange, and means. for securing the engagingedge portions together.

THOMAS WALTERS BRADLEY.

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